__-tac-toe
The crossword clue "__-tac-toe" is answered by TIC, a 3-letter entry. Used 146 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 25 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TIC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIC answer page.
Used 146 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 25 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for TIC
Every other clue in this collection answered by TIC, most used first.
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- Spasm - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- Quirk - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Muscle spasm - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Nervous twitch - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Personal quirk - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Behavioral quirk - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Idiosyncrasy - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Twitching - used 32 times, most recently in 1999
- Facial twitch - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Peculiarity - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Tic-___-toe - TAC, used 230 times
- Tic-tac-toe win - OOO, used 196 times
- Toe count - TEN, used 79 times
- Tic-tac-toe winner - OOO, used 70 times
- Tic-tac-toe loser - OXO, used 57 times
- Tic-tac-toe loser - XOO, used 39 times
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